Coronavirus: 15 million 'unsafe' PPE goggles urgently recalled from UK hospitals
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mirror.co.ukHospitals are reportedly being urged to recall more than 15 million pairs of goggles which do not protect medics against coronavirus.
An urgent alert has been issued to pull the Tiger Eye goggles from NHS supply chains as they fail to meet safety standards, the Telegraph reports.
A total of 25.6 million pairs of the eye protecters are understood to have been bought in 2009 as part of a pandemic stockpile, for use in lower-risk settings.
But in the latest failure linked to supplying personal protective equipment (PPE) to the NHS frontline - vital to protect health workers from the highly contagious virus - 15.9 million have been distributed to hospitals.
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